Metaverse: A New Form of Communication Integrating Reality and Virtuality

The year 2021 is called the “first year of the metaverse”. The year witnessed the concept of “metaverse” extending from industry insiders to the general public, and saw the basic formation of the metaverse industry paradigm as many giants entered the industry one after another. At present, the mobile internet has shown a solidified pattern and pervading monopoly. In this case, it becomes impossible for startups to break through the siege in the consumer market, and the interval between hardware updates is extended. What is indeed the metaverse? How should we build the metaverse? What opportunities and challenges will the metaverse bring to human society? This article focuses on finding answers to the aforesaid questions. In the face of the great historic opportunities brought about by the metaverse, we should drive a new round of technological innovation and industrial iteration, foster new-type leading enterprises and nurture new industrial clusters in the development of metaverses. At the same time, efforts are needed to guide platform enterprises to take the initiative to take social responsibilities and establish an open, inclusive, mutually beneficial and symbiotic metaverse governance ecology through comprehensive use of legal, market, regulatory, technological and other means.